Creating Documentation for Section GG

Creating Documentation for Section GG Table of Contents Inter-disciplinary Approach... 1 Setup... 1 CNA Data Entry... 2 Other Staff Observations... 4 Section GG Tracking... 5 Final Discipline Decisions... 6 Making Decisions for the MDS... 7 Establishing a Discharge Date... 10 Reports... 11 Discipline GG Tracking... 11 MDS GG Final... 13 MDS Interface... 14 Inter-disciplinary Approach Functionality of the documentation is assuming a full inter-disciplinary team approach. However, each facility will have its own policies reflecting who is responsible for this documentation. You will need to be aware of such policies when completing the setup. 1. Individuals from within multiple disciplines can enter performance baseline observations for each shift during the three-day observation periods. 2. An oversite person from each of those disciplines can review the information and establish the performance baseline and, for the 5-day assessment, the discharge goal(s) for their discipline. For example, nursing oversite may review CNA and nursing (LPN or RN) data for all three shifts during the period and then establish the nursing baseline with an appropriate goal(s). The therapy oversite person may do the same for all of the therapists and therapy aides. 3. Prior to completing the MDS, the MDS coordinator (or a team meeting), can review each discipline s baseline observations. Interviews can help reconcile any discrepancies between disciplines. The final baselines and goal(s) can be recorded along with notes to explain the conclusions. Setup You must decide whether you wish CNAs to document the usual performance they see during their shifts over the first three days of admission/readmission or the last three days prior to a scheduled discharge. Resident Observations 3.0 Utilities ResObs Security You must get everyone out of ResObs for a few minutes before you can make changes to the system. Once everyone is out, go to the fourth tab, MDS GG. You will need to decide the type of residents that you want to track. This will be facility specific and up to your individual policies. You have three options: MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 1

1. Pop the option for only those who are traditional Medicare. 2. Pop the option for all that have traditional Medicare as well as those on Replacement plans. Some facilities are doing this so that in the event they initially believe they are on a replacement and later discover they actually were traditional Medicare, they have the information available to complete the assessments. 3. Pop the option for everyone. You will also need to decide whether you are going to turn on this option for the CNAs. Answer the last question according to how you wish to handle this. CNA Data Entry Security has been set to Y(es) for CNA input (see above). If you are within three days of an admission or readmission census transaction or within three days of a scheduled discharge (see Entering a Planned Discharge Date), when CNAs complete their normal SHIFT END observations, they will be presented with a new screen where they may enter their Performance observations. Their screen will have series of tabs labeled with the MDS question numbers the data will be used for. They will click on the first, GG0130 a-c. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 2

They will have buttons for the various levels of care. Each button gives the number and word used to describe the amount of assistance per the MDS. Next to each button is a clue for that level of care. CNAs do NOT have the option of using 09 Not Applicable, 10, or 88 Not Attempted due to Medical Condition or Safety Concerns. They do, however, have a button for DID NOT HAPPEN THIS SHIFT. This is so the oversite person knows the aide did not just forget to record this observation. The CNA will click the button for the correct amount of assistance. That will return them to the list of tasks where they can select the next item, i.e. Oral Hygiene. They will continue until they have recorded a performance observation or Did not happen for this shift for each section. When finished, they will select SAVE OBSERVATIONS. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 3

Other Staff Observations LPN, RN, therapists, social workers, dietary, activities, etc. however you define your interdisciplinary team for Section GG documentation, can also record baseline observations for each of the three days. They can do so through Resident Observations Nursing Data Entry. Selection of the resident will determine which, if any, of the Section GG buttons are available to you. If you are not within the observation window, then none of the buttons will be active. Section GG Tracking allows you to record the baseline performance observations for your shift. Final Discipline (Re)Admission GG Decisions this allows you to see all of the observations over the three-day period since the (re)admission transaction for YOUR discipline. You can review and make a final decision for the baseline performance at admission and the discharge goal(s) for YOUR discipline. Final Discipline GG Decisions this option allows you to see all of YOUR discipline s observations over the three days prior to the planned discharge. Your discipline can review and enter the final decision for the baseline performance at discharge. In the above illustration, Ms. Georges is within the first three days since her admission. The system is open to allow tracking of the baseline performance and also for the disciplines to set the final decisions for the 5-day assessment. There is no planned discharge within the next three days so the Final Decisions for the discharge are grayed out, inactive. If the staff member does not have a discipline that is identifiable by the system, you will first see a list of disciplines to select from. We do our best to match what we can, but some facilities put the job title in the DISCIPLINE field in the password module. That can make matching disciplines more difficult. If that happens, simply select your discipline from the list so that you can proceed. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 4

Section GG Tracking This button will display similar screens to those the CNAs see during their shift-end routine. It will have the various tabs for each of the MDS questions. Select the first item, Eating. Each button gives the number and word used to describe the amount of assistance per the MDS. Next to each button is a clue for that level of care. Notice that now the choices for 09 Not Applicable, 10 Not Attempted- Environmental, and 88 Not Attempted are available for selection. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 5

Staff will click the button for the correct amount of assistance. That will return them to the list of tasks where they can select the next item, i.e. Oral Hygiene. They will continue until they have recorded a performance observation for each section they have responsibility for. When finished, they will select SAVE OBSERVATIONS. Final Discipline Decisions At the end of the three-day observation or at the time of therapy interventions, each discipline will want to review their data entries and make a final determination as to baseline performance and, in the case of the admission, they will want to establish at least one goal. Resident Observations Nursing Data Entry Select the resident. You will use one of the final decision buttons depending on whether this is the admission side of the stay or the discharge side. The illustrations below are based on the (Re)Admission screens. Here you will determine both the baseline performance and at least one goal. The Discharge screens look similar except you will not be specifying a goal. The oversight person for the department of nursing, for example, will see all of the CNA entries (CNA? = Y in column 2) as well as any LPN, RN, etc. observations that were entered over the three-day period. The -- (see Shower, rows 2 and 4) indicates that the CNA reported that the task did not occur during the shift. After evaluating all of the observations and any Progress Notes, the nursing department (in this illustration) can enter their determination for the baseline performance/goal(s) into the boxes at the bottom of the corresponding column. Move from tab to tab until baseline performance has been assigned according to your facility s policy. If responsibility for specific items are split between disciplines, your discipline may only score some of the items per your facility protocols. Each discipline will review and score as appropriate. If no goal is being set for an item, you may enter a dash. Just remember, you need to specify at least one goal (performance can improve, decline, or stay the same) in your final decisions. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 6

The last tab, GOAL NOTES, shows a summary of the performance scores and the goal(s) you have assigned. It also has a place for the discipline to record the rationale for making the selection(s). Use the green NOTES button as a short-cut to Progress Notes. Whatever information you have placed in the Discipline Notes box on the Goal Notes tab, can be copied into Progress Notes. The Final Discipline GG Decisions for Discharge have screens identical to those above. The only difference is that the goal fields are inactive since goals are only established for the 5-day assessment. Making Decisions for the MDS The MDS Coordinator (or other responsible party) then will examine the information from the various disciplines and make the final determination as to what gets put on the MDS. This is done through the Care Center. Display your resident and then click the MDS shortcut button on the right side of the window. On the left side of the pop-up menu window you will now have options to Finalize MDS (Re)Admit or Discharge GG. Which button is active will depend on the specific resident. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 7

The resident in our illustration has just been admitted so we need to finalize the admission performance baseline and the discharge goals. Both Nursing and Therapy entered observations, although each did not evaluate every item. We see the Discipline and the person (User) who made the discipline s final determination. If both disciplines made the same observations, then this step should be fairly straight forward. However, since disciplines see residents at different times of the day and for different amounts of time, it is possible to have different observations. Above, you can see that Therapy scored this resident with a 05 for Sit to Stand. Nursing scored this with a 04. You may wish to review notes or to interview staff members to get a clearer view of this resident s usual performance. Review the information you have and make a final determination for your MDS. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 8

Notice that there is a NOTES tab (shown below). This is the note where each discipline explained rationale for their scoring. The list of disciplines who participated will be on the left. When you highlight the discipline, you will see their notes on the right. In our example below, NURSING is highlighted and the corresponding nursing note is displayed on the right. To see the THERAPY note, simply highlight that discipline. The final tab allows this decision-maker (MDS coordinator or responsible person) to write his/her notes for the final rationale. In our example where there was a discrepancy in Transfer, you may have found upon interview, that Therapy was based upon a single observation prior to their intervention. However, Nursing was able to make several observations over the course of the first three days (time prior to therapy intervention). Since this is supposed to reflect Usual Performance, you elected to accept the Nursing observations for this item. This tab also summarizes the information that you will import into the MDS. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 9

Establishing a Discharge Date This may be a planned physical discharge from the facility or the end of the Medicare stay. While the system can know the census transaction for the Admission and set up the three observation days for the 5-day assessment, it cannot know a future discharge date without your intervention. Care Center MDS button You will see two buttons. One allows you to Set a Discharge Date. This will open the three-day window for tracking usual performance and for allowing each of the disciplines to make a determination. The second button will Clear the Discharge Date. If the planned discharge is canceled, using this button will close the observation window. Any information previously recorded will NOT be deleted. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 10

If the planned discharge date changes, you can click the Set Discharge Date button a second time and simply update the information. If a planned discharge date has been entered into the system, you will see the information on the Resident s Care Center screen just above the MDS assessment information (shown below). Note: As of now, 2018, if your Medicare A resident has a planned discharge to an acute care hospital (i.e. surgery), you do NOT need to collect this Section GG information. The discharge to a hospital assessment does require the end of Medicare A stay assessment (A0310H=1). However, it does not currently require completion of Section GG. Screens for recording data and making decisions will look like those used above. The only difference is that you will only be working with the usual performance and NOT the discharge goals. Reports Resident Observations 3.0 Analytics/Reports Assessments Discipline GG Tracking This reports shows you the individual observations per discipline plus that discipline s final decisions. Select the resident and you will see a list of census transaction dates and the discipline that recorded Section GG data entries. For the resident below, you can see that there are three census transactions. The bottom, or oldest, is a 5/18 planned discharge where the Therapy and Nursing disciplines recorded data and made final discipline MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 11

decisions. The next three are for a 2/11 planned discharge where the disciplines of Therapy, Nursing, and Nutrition all recorded data and made decisions. The top two lines are for a readmission where nursing and therapy made discipline decisions. Highlight the transaction/discipline that you wish to review and then press the Select button. For illustration (see above), we have chosen to review the Section GG data entries and final decisions made by the Nursing discipline for the 9/30 Readmission (highlighted blue). The top section shows the Discipline s final decisions. If there are any notes associated with these decisions, they will be shown below the final decisions. The next sections will show the individual data points. There will be one for each record. An * next to a name (last section in our example for user May, April*) indicates that this information was recorded by a CNA during the shift end process. A in a CNA observation indicates that those points did not occur during their shift. The second section is a nursing staff member (LPN, RN) that recorded data using the Nursing Data Entry. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 12

At the bottom of the page, there is a legend that defines each of the code values so that you do not have to memorize them. Note: The report will show you the final decision per discipline and the data it was based upon. If individuals continue to collect data after that decision, those observations will not display on this report until decisions are reviewed again. If someone goes into the Final Decision for that discipline, all observations will be visible including those since the previous decision. They can review the data again and make any necessary changes. Running the report after that, the revised final decision and all of the observations that had been collected up to this new point will be displayed. MDS GG Final This report focuses on the individual Discipline decisions and the final MDS data decision made based on that information. Using the same resident as in the report above, we now see that there are four items listed in the selection screen one item per census transaction and one for which there is NO data at all.. Each transaction will include all of the discipline final decisions. Highlight the transaction you wish to see. In our illustration, we want to review the 9/30 Readmission from the Hospital. Press the Select button to generate the report. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 13

You see the final discipline decisions and the user who entered them. The top line is the MDS coordinator s decision for the data that will be used on the MDS. Note, that at this time the ^ is a viable option for the questions. If there are associated notes, they will be displayed on the report as well. At the bottom of the report there is a legend to explain what the various codes mean so that you do not have to memorize them. MDS Interface If you have Resident Observations 3.0, you will now notice that the boxes for the Section GG questions have a blue ring around them. This indicates there is a link between these questions and data collected through the ResObs module. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 14

While in any of the questions, press the F9 key. If the MDS coordinator, or other responsible person has indicated final decisions for usual admission performance, discharge goal and/or usual discharge performance through the Care Center, those observations will be listed for your review. Below is an example of an admission final decision for a 5-day assessment for questions GG0130. The Decision Date indicates the admission date. The first column corresponds to the usual performance at admission. The second column corresponds to the discharge goals. Remember that you must have at least one discharge goal. You will need to F9 once in any of the GG0130 fields and once in any of the GG0170 fields. A similar screen will appear when you F9 for discharge final decision. The Decision Date corresponds to the discharge date. The column of data is the usual performance for the three day period prior to discharge. You will F9 once in any of the GG0130 questions and once in any of the GG0170 questions. Below is an illustration of GG0170. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 15

After your review, press ACCEPT to fill in the MDS with these values. Press CANCEL if you need to do further research. If this is a 5-day, discharge combination where you will need to complete both the admission performance, the discharge goals, and the discharge performance you will need to complete the F9 process multiple times twice in the admission portion and twice in the discharge portion, Sections GG0130 and GG0170. MDS 3.0 Section GG Documentation, revised for Oct 1, 2018 changes 16